Young French concentration camp prisoner

The surviving prisoners at Dachau, on liberationday, ranged in age from 12 to 65, according to Marcus J. Smith.The French prisoners numbered 3,918 according to the officialArmy census. This picture, which was scanned from the Museum Guidebooksold at the Dachau Memorial Site Museum, shows a picture on page65, labeled #123 "The youngest of the French prisoners."The next picture in the Museum exhibit is #124, a picture of theArbeit Macht Frei gate at the entrance to the Dachau ConcentrationCamp, which is on the next page of the Guidebook and shows throughslightly in the sky in this picture.The preceding pictures inthe exhibit on page 64 in the Museum Guidebook, are from the Dachausection of the exhibit and are clearly labeled "Dachau 1933."Note, however, that the prisoners in the picture above are standingin front of a building which looks nothing like the pictures ofthe barracks in the Dachau camp, nor does it resemble the reconstructedbarrack building at the Dachau Memorial Site. The barrack buildingin the background of the picture above, purportedly taken in Dachau,resembles the pre-fabricated horse barns which served as barracksin the Birkenaucamp near Auschwitz in Poland.

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